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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"”.
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Physique and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Young people today are confronted with many problems in their everyday lives. It is difficult to tell how each individual overcomes these problems, but we do know that some problems are overcome more easily than others. This study was concerned with two problem levels, (a) those problems which were …
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Learning of Low-Ability Children and Tutor Behavior as a Function of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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A Multi-Dimensional Model of Sexual Stigma and Relationship Satisfaction Among Female Same-Sex Couples: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Rejection Sensitivity
… present study presents initial evidence for a self-fulfilling prophecy in which expectations of rejection may lead the individual and their partner to feel less satisfied with their relationship. By focusing on the potential impact of sexual stigma at the dyadic level, researchers may develop …
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The Accuracy of Initial Trust Judgments
… of study two support the notion that trust is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Incompatible: The Construction of the Homosexual Subject in American Mainline Protestantism
… them in recent history by denying ordination to "self-avowed practicing homosexuals." This dissertation analyzes such ordination policies and their enforcement in ecclesial courts in three denominations, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran …
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The Power of Perception in Human-AI Interaction: Investigating Psychological Factors and Cognitive Biases that Shape User Belief and Behavior
… user behavior, exploring it through the lens of self-fulfilling prophecy. Overall, this thesis enhances understanding of human-AI interaction and provides insights for developing AI systems across various applications.
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First impressions of child faces: Facial trustworthiness influences adults’ interpretations of children’s behaviour in ambiguous situations
… behavioural consequences for children through a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Technology and market evaluation for semiconductor nanowire transistors
… fabricated using various methods, in this work Self-Limiting-Oxidation was analyzed for its technological feasibility and found to be satisfactory. Possible value propositions and IP landscape analysis show that this methodology is very much feasible. As the new architecture essentially solves …
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"Nothing to Fear from the Influence of Foreigners:" The Patriotism of Richmond's German-Americans during the Civil War
… of nativism. Nativists put into practice a self-fulfilling prophecy that, by accusing the German-born of disloyalty, alienated them and discouraged their sympathies towards the Confederacy. In doing so, by constructing an image of a German antihero, the Confederacy built up its spirit of …
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Bad Apples, Bad Barrels, and the Structure of Marketing Channel Relationships: Analyses of the Propensity for Opportunism and Opportunistic Behaviors
… some researchers have proposed a "cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy" and have argued that the uncritical assumption of opportunism and excessive use of control mechanisms such as monitoring only exacerbates the problem. Thus, it is important to identify conditions in which opportunism likely …
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Perceptions of Male Versus Female Students Enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Courses Regarding Peer Tutoring, a Component for Student Retention
… male students. These findings support Merton's Self-fulfilling Prophecy Theory. Female students perceived themselves as less prepared for a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics course than male students, and this perception has become a reality, since female students were not …
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Transferring the stigma of mathematics during COVID-19 : exploring correlations between parent and student perceptions about mathematics.
… transfer to their child and impact the student's self-concept about the subject. Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) Pygmalion effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy, served as the theoretical framework for this study while specifically analyzing the correlation between parent beliefs about mathematics …
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The Resentful Embittered Personality, Adjustment and Depression in Student and Marital Relationships
… style that likely functioned to set up a self-fulfilling prophecy of expected and elicited interpersonally conflictual exchanges. Multiple hierarchical regression analyses found that the REPS predicted both main and interactive effects of psychological distress and well-being over and …
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Governing exchange in strategic alliances : the dynamics of interfirm trust
… trust building in alliances may be a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. To some extent, the interpretation of behaviors and the way partners reacted to each other was dependent on the initial categorizations they formed about each other. As predicted, turnover in role persons negatively …
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Long-term basement heave in over-consolidated clay
… that the prediction of high swell pressures is a self-fulfilling prophecy that should be avoided in design. The assumption of high swell pressures leads to the specification of stiff and heavy slabs, which constrain vertical movements and attract high swell pressures from the clay. In contrast, a …
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The perception of women in late antiquity and the impact it had on female asceticism.
… in Late Antiquity did not ascribe to the self-fulfilling prophecy of women that the Church Fathers offered them, but it had the adverse affect. Female ascetics in Late Antiquity were inspired to overcome and shed the negative virtues attributed to them. Although this study does build upon …
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"Conceptions of midwifery" A study of forms of knowledge and values foundational for midwifery
… perception is important and may contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy which continues to undermine the status of the midwifery profession. Experience and intuition were acknowledged to be important aspects of professional practice and midwives commented that they valued the knowledge gained …
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Emotional intelligence and sociotropy-autonomy in young women with DSM-IV-TR hypochondriasis: a mixed-method study
… wrong with me; (iv) Emotional reasoning; (v) Self-fulfilling prophecy; (vi) External locus of control; (vii) Over-reliance on other people; and (viii) The experience of psychological therapy. Fifty-one female undergraduate psychology students formed a matched comparison group for the study and …
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An Examination of Student-Ahtletes' Perceptions of Their Academic Abilities
… and Jacobson’s Pygmalion effect (1968) and self-fulfilling prophecy research). The current study examined student-athletes’ perceptions of this stereotype. Three areas were addressed: athletes’ perceptions of their peers’ awareness that the student is a student-athlete, perceptions of their …
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Positive accounting theory and the study of corporate control: the role of loan covenants and the going concern qualification
… from more recent research. The GCQ paper itself shows that, although the self-fulfilling prophecy argument and differential audit firm size do not appear to prejudice independence, auditor switching may pose such a threat. The essay concludes by pointing at directions for future research, in …
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